The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1887-12-02
RELIGIOUS.

Father Alien, distinguished Cath
Ollie priest Of New Orleans, was buried
IN that city Wednesday Of last week
d tabernacle 10 seat 5000 persons
is being erected in Louisville for Mfr
| Moody ID hold revival meetings ii
next January, prior to his departure
for India.
The world will not come to the
church 60 be saved the Church mnst
come to 1t. go ye into all the world,
and preach the gospel to every crea-
ture - Church Union.
For the year ending October 81,
the Methodist Episcopal Church has
collected for missions 81 1886, 900. So
SAYS ]. w. Phillips, the Treasurer of
the Missionary Society Of that church.
The Evangelical Preachers Union
has issued a circular to all pastors
looking toward a united effort in sup
port Of the proposed Legislative bill to
repeal or modify the existing Sunday
law.
The Christian Irden, referring 10
the speech Of MIR. Grady, of the At
lanta Constitlon, at a prohibition
meeting in Atlanta recently, says that
sat times its eloquence was madden
ing" The speech was in defense of
prohibition.
One prize of S7Oo and one of $500
are offered by the Congregational Sun
day School and Publishing Society,
Boston, for the first and second best
MSS, suitable for Sunday school
books, either of fiction, biography or
history, Competition open until May
IS, 1888.
Rev. DR.. Irwin, secretary of the
Presbyterian National Board of Mis-
sions says at is too late in the his
tory of the world to attempt to over
look and slight the work of woman.
1t is hard to see how what has been
accomplished in the field of missions
could have been achieved without her
aid.
A number of Baptist churches and
clergymen will follow Mr.. Spurgeon's
example by Withdrawing from the
Baptist Union. Among them are the
Rev Mr.. Brown, of East London Tab
ernacle; the Rev. Mr.. Davies, of a
Brighton church the Rev. Mr. Bur
ton, of Dalston and the Rev. Mr.. Spur
geon, of Croydon. The directors of
the Pastors College will convoke a
conference to consider joint action on
the secessions. The Nottingham Tab
ernacIe has passed a resolution of
sympathy with Mr.. SPurgeon.-
Church Union.
There is sarcasm in the following
extract from an article by a city pas
tor in a late number of the Coaqreqa-
tjonalist, but there is also a good deal
of truth: ~ have the best lot of peo-
pie in my church | have ever met
with They get up entertainments,
suppers and dinners which are models
of their kind. They pay their bills
with more promptness than any Peo-
pie ever saw. In fact, they do every
thing in the world except the things
for which the church was legitimately
designed. And what can ! do about
tit?" The church certainly was never
intended to be a restaurant or fash
ionable Observation-Disclosures
Banner.
The sculptor, with an ideal form in
bis thought, produces a statue from
the block of marble, Every measure
mcnt of the block, every turn of the
drill, every blow of the mallet upon
the chisel, and every effort of the
scuIp tor's mind, goes to make up the
finished form, which is the production
of his ideal, as nearly as the materials
would admit. So, our Lord, as our
Maker, has the ideal towards which He
seeks TO form US. And all His opera
tiOns are but steps in the work of our
formation. Every measurement of
our life by the divine ttuth, tests our
capacity TO attain the ideal; every
turn Of the drill of penetrating pre-
cepts of life, prepares us for the ideal
character every blow of the hammer
of circumstances is, in the hands of d.
vine providence, constantly shaping
US toward the heavenly pattern. And,
, IN the perfect economy of orr Lord,
never do We have to bear one measure,
msnt, or one penetrating cut, or one
! blow Of circumstances, that is not alb
s0lately needed to produce the most
( perfect work which zoe s0W alLOW to
j be done within us.--Ssl.
Napoleon standing on the brow oil
St. Helena, said to Monlholou "Car
yoH tell me who Jesus Christ was ?
Without waiting for an answer b.
continued: '"There is something abou
b him / do not understand. Alexander
{ Caesar, Charlemagne, and myself have
! founded great empires. But on wba'
7 did these creations of our genius rest
+ Upon force. But Jesus founded hil
r upon love; and this day millions would
die for him. ] have inspired multi
tudes with an enthusiastic devotion
J sueh that they wonld have died fol
me but to do this it was necessary
that | should be present with the
electric influence Of my looks, my
words and my voice. When / saw
men, and spoke to them, / lighted
npthe fame of devotion intheir hearts,